HITACHI Goes TERABYTE!!!!

I remember the moment when we had our first PC installed at home. It was a PIII 650 Mhz machine with an HD capacity of 4.7 GB;I was thrilled to my bones. Those were the times when all we would save on the PC were word documents, wallpapers!!!! and sometimes games which required a maximum of about 150 MB, a la Quake or Unreal. When Seagate announced the first 20GB hard disk, almost everybody laughed"who would ever need so much of space?" It seems that within less than a decade's time people's needs have grown a 100 fold!!! Up untill now Seagate was again the innovator with it's 750GB line of hard drives; and now Hitachi has come up with a 'first' in it's Deskstar 7K1000 line of hard drives with a whopping 1 Terabyte of capacity.

Apart from the massive storage, the drive carries a huge 32MB of cache memory,runs at a fair 7200 RPM and also uses PMR(Perpendicular Magnetic Recording) technology; first time for Hitachi in the 3.5' segment. The drive benchmarks well against similar hard drives in the market and clearly outperforms the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB. For the detailed benchmarking results of this drive please visit here.